THE 



Madison Guide Book 



MADISON, WISCONSIN 



A manual of information, historical, statistical and descrip- 
tive: with street car and carriage tours about the city 
and its environs. Illustrated with halftone cuts. 



BY 

FRANK A. GILMORE 



Aloft she sits upon her throne. 
Betwixt the waters gleaming; 

Her right hand holds the keys of state. 
Her left the torch of learning. 



1836 Madison Founded. 
1856 Became a City. 
1905 Population 25,000. 



Publish.ed at Madison in Sept., 1905 



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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 

Two Copies Received 

DEC 14 1905 

CoDyrieht Entry 

CLASS CL XXc. No. 

COPY B. 



Copyright, 1905 

BY 

FRANK A. GILMORE 



STATE JOURNAL PRINTING COMPANY, 

Printers and Stkreottpers, 

madison. wis. 



DEDICATION: To the First Unitarian Society ot Madison, whose Icind- 
ness has made my life here most pleasant. 



PREFACE, 



This book is offered to the public in the hope that it 
may prove helpful to Madison people and Madison vis- 
itors. The visitor has been first in mind and I have tried 
to arrange the material to the best advantage. The cen- 
tral points are first described and tours in the street cars 
and by carriage suggested as an easy and quick means 
of seeing the city and its environs. The author hopes 
too that even the oldest inhabitant will be p-lad to have 
such a manual. We have had several publications giv- 
ing fragments of the information here dealt with, but 
these have been for the most part advertising media. 
Good views of the city are for sale. But no one has put 
together the interesting facts about our citv in a Guide 
Book. 

The information here printed comes from several 
sources. Much of it is scattered through early news- 
paper files, histories, records and reports'; among the 
latter " A History of Madison," by Daniel S. Durrie, 
" The Story of Madison," by Reuben G. Thwaites, and 
" Madison Past and Present," published by the Wiscon- 
sin State Journal, have been freely used. Considerable, 



vi PREFACE. 

personal observation and note-taking has been neces- 
sary. Much detailed information that is omitted may 
be found in the City Directory, the Wisconsin Blue Book 
and the General Catalog of the University of Wisconsin. 
The author is under obliijation to Mr. R. G. Thwaites 
and Mrs. A. W. Moore for helpful advice; and to the 
Cantwell Printing Co., the Madison Democrat, the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin and the State Journal for the loan 

of cuts. 

Frank A. Gilmore. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Dedication, iii. 
Preface, v. 
Dedicatory Poem, 2. 
General Information — 

Situation, 8. 

Railways, 3. 

Distance from Milwaukee, etc., 3. 

Institutions of the city, 3, 4. 

Dane County, 4. 
The name, 4. 
Statistics, 4. 

The Four Lake Region, 4. 
How formed, 4. 
How named, 5. 

The Site of Madison, 5. 
The lake-girt isthmus, 5. 

Situation compared with other American cities, 5. 
Sky-line of Madison. 6. 
Sunset across Mendota. 6. 

Lakes Monona and Mendota, 6. 
Elevation: area; depth, 6, 7. 
Shore line. 7. 

Lake Wingra, 7. 

Description: Improvements planned, 7. 

Bird's-Eye View of the City, 9. 
From the capitol dome, 9. 
From University Hall, 9. 
Opinions of visitors. 9, 10. 
H. W. Longfellow's poem, 10. 



yiii TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Indian History and Remains, 11. 
Indian mounds, 11. 
Their origin, 11. 

Mrs. John Kensie's "Waubun," 11. 
Madison and the retreat of Black Hawk, 13. 
Indian graves, 12, 13. 
Historical Sketch of the City, 13. 
Historical data, 14. 
The city's growth, 14. 

Recent change in character of the city, 15. 
The Capitol and Park, 15. 

General statistics: size and contents of the capitol, 15, 16. 
Description of the park, 16, 17. 
Tour No. 1.— Around Capitol Square, 18. 
Monona Avenue — 

G. A. R. Headquarters, 18. 

Elks' Club House, 18. 

Home of Gen. David Atwood, 18. 

Home of Gen. Lucius Fairchild, 19. 

View from foot of Monona avenue, 19. 
West Main Street, 19. 

Dane County Buildings, 19. 

St. Raphael's Church, 19. 
Carroll Street. 20. 

Site of old Baptist Church, 20. 
West Washington Avenue, 20. 

Grace Episcopal Church, 20. 

First Congregational Church, 20. 

St. Reginia Convent. 
West Dayton Street, 20. 

New Baptist Church, 20. 

Madison Free Library, 21. 

The High School, 21. 

School Facilities in Madison, 23. 
Wisconsin Avenue, 23. 

Masonic Temple. 23, 24. 

Presbyterian Church, 23. 

Methodist Episcopal Church, 24. 

Unitarian Church, 24. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. ix 

Tour No. 1. — con. 

Mifflin Street, 24. 

The City Hall, 24. 

Fuller Opera House, 25. 

The Post Office. 25. 

Woman's Rest Rooms, 25. 

German Evangelical Church, 25. 

German Methodist Church, 25. 
PiNCKNEY Street, 25. 
Market Square and E. Washington Avenue, 26. 

St. John's Lutheran Church, 26. 

Zion Church 26. 

East Washington Avenue Proposed Improvement. 26. 
East Main Street, 26. 

St. Patrick's Church, 26. 

St. Paul Church. Oldest church in the city, 26, 27. 

Names and Divisions of Madison Streets, 27. 
Tour No. 2.— In Street Cars to University and Western 
End of the City, 27. 

State Street, 28. 

Buildings of the Holy Redeemer Society, 28. 
Wisconsin Academy, 28. 

University of Wisconsin, 28-39. 
The Lower Campus, 28. 

Armory, 28. 

Boat House, 28. 

Young Men's Christian Ass'n Building, 29. 

The Historical Library, 29. 

The President's House, 31. 
The Upper Campus. 31. 

Science Hall, 31. 

Chemical Laboratory, 32. 

Machine Shops, 32. 

Central Heating Plant. 32. 

View of Mendota from the Bluff. 32. 

Old Library Hall, 32. 

Chadbourne Hall, 32. 

Law Building. 33. 



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Tour No, 2.— The Upper Campus, con. 

Engineering Building, 33. 

North and South Halls, 33. 

University Hall: view from the roof, 34. 
The Western Campus. 34. 

Chemical Hall, 35. 

Washburn Observatory, 35. 

Beauty of the University Site, 35. 

Agricultural Hall, 36. 

Dairy Building— the Babcock Milk test, 36. 

Horticultural Hall, 36. 

University Barns, 37. 

Camp Randall, 37. 
University Data, 37-39. 

Departments, 37. 

Finances, 38. 

Grounds, 38. 

Growth of the Institution, 38. 

Causes of Growth. 39. 

University Heights, Wingra Park, West Ijawn and the 
Cemeteries, 39. 

Forest Hill Cemetery, 39, 40. 

Calvary Cemetery, 40. 

Henry Vilas Park and the Lake Wingra Improvement, 40. 

Edgewood Villa, 40. 

Home of Congressman Adams, 41. 
Tour No. 3.— In Street Cars to Elmside and the Eastern 
Limits, 41. 

The Railroad Depots, 41. 

Implement Row, 41. 

Manufacturing Establishments, 41. 

The Yahara River, 41. 

Lake Side Park, 42. 

Elmside and Fair Oaks, 42. 43. 
Tour No. 4.— In Street Cars.— W. Main and E. Johnson street 
line, 43. 

W. Main street to the depots, 43. 

E. Mitflin street, S. Hamilton to E. Johnson, 43. 



TABLE (3F CONTENTS. xi 

Tour No. 4. — cor,. 

Norwegian Lutheran Church, 48. 

Madison Water Works — Tlie City Water Supply, 43. 

End of the line and Manufacturing plants, 44. 

Tour No. 5.— Carriage Tour.— West and South, 44. 
Wisconsin Avenue, 44. 

Home of Ex-Senator Wm. F. Vilas, 44. 
Langdon Street, 44. 

Home of U. S. Senator John C. Spooner, 44. 
Over University Hill to the Raymer Drive, 44. 45. 

Variety of scenery — Summer cottages, 45. 

Merrill Springs, 45. 

Eagle Heights, 46. 

View of the city, 46. 
Burial mound, 46. 

Return via Owen Park to Greenbush and South Madison 

46, 47. 
Owen Park, 47. 
Greenbush, 47. 

Madison General Hospital, 47. 
Hebrew Synagogue, 47. 
South Madison, 47. 
The Sanitarium, 48. 
Dane County Fair Grounds, 48. 
Monona Bay and Brittingham Park, 48. 

Tour No. 6.— Carriage Drive East, to Sixth Ward, Ten- 
ney Park and Mendota Asylum, 48. 
Spaight Street and Monona Lake Park, 49. 
Site of Orphans' Home, 49. 
Orton Park, 49. 

Water Street and the Yaliara River, 49. 
Sewage Disposal Works, 49. 
Contagious Hospital, 51. 
End of East Washington Avenue, 51. 
Tenney Park; the Yahara lock; Willow Drive. 51. 
Improvements in progress, 51-53. 



xii TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Tour No. 6.— con. 

From the Yahara to Mendota Asylum — 

Estate of Edw. M. Fuller, 58. 

The Farwell Drive, 53. 

The Golf Grounds, 54. 

Maple Bluff, 54. 

Mendota Asylum for the Insane, 54. 

Indian mounds, 54. 

Governor's Island and Rocky Roost, 55. 

Farwell Point, 55. 

Return via Farwell Drive and Sherman Avenue, 55.' 
The lake shore homes, 55. 
Governor's residence, 55-57. 
Completion of the tour, 57. 

Trips by Water, 57-59. 

Boat liveries. 59. 

Picnic Point, 58. 

Steamer and launch trips. 58. 

The Askew steamers, 59. 

Lakeside Assembly. 59, 

Esther Beach, 59. 

Steamer Wisconsin and sail around Mendota Lake, 59. 

Steamer Putter II.. 60. 
Fishing and Hunting, 60. 
The State Fish Hatchery, 61. 
Parks and Drives, 61. 
Libraries, 63. 
Intellectual Life, 63. 
Moral Life, 64. 
Literary Madison, 64-67. 
Art in Madison, 67. 68. 
Madison as a Convention City, 68. 
Madison as a Summer Resort, 69. 
Madison as a Manufacturing City, 70. 
Madison as a Business City, 70. 
Madison as a Permanent Home, 71, 72. 



The Genius of Madison. 



The forest waved upon the heights, 

When once amid the wild, 
The foam upon Monona's hreast 

Became a spirit child. 

Prophetic purpose in her eyes, 

A light illumed her hair, 
Her form, like sea-born Venus, glowed 

As lovely and as fair. 

The city's guardian genius! 

The lake encircled height, 
A royal seat whereon to show 

Her wisdom and her might. 

Fulfilled her high-born mission ; 

Around her far and near 
Its roofs and towers a city spread 

Built by the pioneer. 

The child has grown to woman; 

The increment of years 
Reveals the meaning of her youth, 

Her stately form appears. 

Aloft she sits upon her throne 
Betwixt the waters gleaming, 

Her right hand holds the keys of state, 
Her left the torch of learning. 

The limits of a commonwealth 
Bound not her voice to-day ; 

Her torch shall gleam along the earth 
Forever and for a\ e. 




General Information. 

HE City of Madison, named after 
ames Madison, fourth president of the 
United States, is in Dane county, Wis- 
consin, twenty-three miles from the 
eastern line of the county, nineteen 
from the western, fifteen from the 
northern and southern lines respect- 
ively. 

Three great trunk lines converge 
here in eight divisions; they are the 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. 
R., the Chicago & Northwestern 
R. R. and the Illinois Central R. R. Thus ample trans- 
portation is given in all directions. 

From Madison the cit}' of Milwaukee is seventy-five 
miles east; the Mississippi river is ninety miles west; to 
the south boundary of Wisconsin is thirty-nine miles, and 
to the north boundary two hundred and sixty. The 
city is in the direct line of traffic from Chicago (distant 
one hundred and thirty-nine miles south) to St. Paul,. 
Minneapolis and the great northwest. 

At once the capital of the state and the county seat of 
Dane county, Madison contains many important institu- 
tions and offices. Here are the Capitol building with its 
departments; the University of Wisconsin; the Gover- 



. THE CITY OF MADISON. 

nor's residence; the building of the State Historical so- 
ciety; the United States courts; the county court house 
and jail. Distinguished persons reside here: Governors, 
justices of the supreme court, senators and representa- 
tives in congress, ex-ministers and consuls to foreign gov- 
ernments, authors, artists and scientists. 

Dane County 

Was named for Nathan Dane, congressman from Massa- 
chusetts, who helped frame the famous " Ordinance of 
1787" for the government of the Northwest Territory. 
One clause of this ordinance declared that " there shall 
be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a 
punishment for crime." 

This county is the second largest in the state, com- 
prising 1,200 square miles, or 807,400 acres of land. 
Population, 79,000. The census of 1903 gives 2,359,651 
bushels of corn, 3,669,517 bushels of oats, 11,676,332 
pounds of tobacco, 2,679,4.55 pounds of butter, 1,611,655 
pounds of cheese, among the crop reports of Dane 
county. 

Topography— The Four Lakes. 

The salient feature of this region is the chain of four 
lakes extending from northwest to southeast and con- 
nected by the Yahara or " Catfish " river. They were 
formed bv a glacier which extended southwest from 
Green Bay to Madison. This slow-acting but titanic 
agent also threw up the hills, which now, crowned with 
oaks or golden with grain, make the summer landscape 
varied and charming. 



TYCIIOBERAH. 5 

Tychoberah 

Is the Indian name for the h\ke country. The early set- 
tlers simply called them first, second, third and fourth 
lakes; these numerical names are still in common use. 
In 1854 Gov. L. J. Farwell, assisted by Dr. Lyman 
Draper, secretary of the State Historical society, gave 
the lakes their more euphonious names. First lake be- 
came Kegonsa, or " fish " lake; the second became Wau- 
besa, "swan;" the third Monona, "spirit" or "beauti- 
ful;" and the fourth Mendota, " gathering of the waters " 
or " great lake." 

The Site of Madison, 

Between Lakes Monona and Mendota, is a high rolling 
isthmus extending southwest and northeast, about one- 
half a mile in width. On this the city sits like a queen 
upon her throne, its base laved by the waves; while the 
domes of the Capitol and of University hall typify the 
guardian spirits — Legislation and Learning. Few 
American cities can match its picturesque natural situa- 
tion. Boston, Mass., and Pordand, Me., have fine har- 
bors broken by headlands and islands. W?shington, 
D. C, is bordered by the lordly Potomac: Philadelphia 
has both the Delaware and the Schuylkill; Detroit and 
Milwaukee have a lake front, but no city in this country 
that we can recall has just the combination of land and 
w^ater that Madison has. If it lacks the clifis and surges 
of the ocean, it has an almost complete setting of spark- 
ling water. Front and back they hem the city in. 
Neither Washington nor Philadelphia has our undulat- 



6 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

ing hilly background-, and we know of no other lake 
city thus uniquely placed between two bodies of water. 

The SKy Line of the City. 

To persons susceptible to beautiful effects this is strik- 
ing. At sunset from lake Monona the city looms in 
sharp outline against the colored skyey background. 



The Capitol, the lofty water-tower, church spires and 
other tall structures seem etched upon the firmament, 
suggesting that city of the poets' reverie, seen 

" In cloudland or the land of dreams 
Bathed in a golden atmosphere/' 

Sunset Across Mendota. 

To speak of our sunsets may sound provincial; yet the 
effects across Mendota surpass any mere inland view. 
The changing tints of heaven are intensified by the broad 
mirror of the water, which becomes a sheet of gorgeous 
color. Madison people delight to show visitors this beau- 
tiful spectacle. 

Lakes Monona and Mendota 

Are approximately eight hundred and forty five feet 
above ocean level, and two hundred and ten feet higher 



LAKE WINGRA. 17 

than Lake Michigan. Monona is three, miles in length 
and two in width; its area is five square miles; greatest 
depth seventy-five feet. The tracks of the Chicago. 
Milwaukee and St. Paul and those of the Chicago and 
North Western Railroads run along the city shore of 
Monona. 

Mendota is the largest of the four lakes. It is five 
feet higher than Monona; greatest length six miles: 
width four miles; area fifteen square miles; circumfer- 
ence twenty-two miles; greatest depth eighty-four feet, 

Both lakes have a broken and varied shore line. Blutis 
and embankments rise from forty to one hundred and 
twent}^ five feet above the water, their sides and tips 
covered with trees and shrubs. Between them are 
fields of hav, wheat or corn, with an occasional meadow 
green with rushes and swarming with blackbirds. 

Lake Wingra 

Lies one and one half miles west of the capitol; a strip 
of land less than one quarter of a mile broad separates 
it from the Monona bay (that part of Monona lake en- 
closed by the railroad tracks). It is commonly spoken 
of as Dead lake because it has no inlet and is only con- 
nected with Monona by a sluggish stream. Wingra lake 
skirts Wingra Park and South Madison, two of the west- 
ern suburbs of the city; it is circular in shape with a diam- 
ater of one mile; depth twent3^-five feet. This lake is 
now being improved b}' the Madison Park and Pleasure 
Drive association. Henry Yilas park of sixty acres will 
occupy the northwest shore: the shore will be filled and 
the lake dredged; the outlet will be widened and deep- 




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The Daisy Field on Raymer Drive 



OPINIONS OF VISITORS. p 

ened to give boats a waterway to Lake Monona and a 
broad driveway built along the north shore through the 
grounds of the Edgewood Female Academy. 

Bird's=Eye Views of the City. 

The best view is from the capitol dome. Since the 
fire of February 24, 1904 the dome has been considered 
unsafe and visitors are not allow^ed there. When the 
new building soon to be erected is done, this fine view 
will be accessible to all. 

The next best view is from the roof of University Hall, 
the highest building on the University grounds. i\ccess 
to it may be had every day except Sunday by applying 
to the accommodating janitor of the hall. From this 
roof the city spreads out like a map eastward bourided 
by the rolHng county; the lakes embrace its sides and 
stretch away into the distance. See cut, p. 34. To 
the north is Maple Bluft^and the State x\sylum for the 
Insane. Picnic Point thrusts out from the western shore 
of Mendota like an arm; Eagle Heights raises its oak- 
covered shoulder beyond. West are the university barns 
and fields, and Forest Hill cemetery. South of the spec- 
tator is Lake Wingra and the suburbs. University 
Heights, Wingra Park and South Madison. Lake Ke- 
gonsa appears far awa}'^ over the hills. At one's feet 
are the o-founds and buildino-s of the Universitv. From 
no other point can so fine a view be had at this time, 
and the visitor to Madison should not fail to take it. 

Opinions of Visitors. 

The natural beauty of the city and its surroundings 
strike all visitors, and all give the same verdict of praise. 



lO THE CITY OF MADISON. 

Horace Greeley, who was in Madison in 1858, said: "It 
is the most magnificent site of any inland town 1 ever 
saw." Bayard Ta^'lor and Sir Edwin Arnold expressed 
similar admiration. 

The Poet Longfellow's Tribute 

*'The Four Lakes of Madison," may be found in his 
well-known poems: 

"Four limpid lakes, four Naides 

Or svlvan deities are these, 
In flowing robes of azure dressed; 

P'our lovely handmaids that uphold 
Their shining mirrors rimmed with gold, 

To the fair city of the AVest. 

" Bv day the coursers of the sun 

Drink of these waters as they run 
Their swift diurnal round on high ; 
By night the constellations glow 
Far down the hollow deeps below, 
And glimmer in another sky. 

"Fair lakes serene and full of light, 
Fair town arrayed in robes of white. 

How visionary ye appear! 

All like a floating landscape seems 

In cloudland or the land of dreams. 
Bathed in a golden atmosphere!" 

Two pictures of Madison and the lakes, by the artist 
Thomas Moran, were exhibited at the Centennial Expo- 
sition at Philadelphia in 1876. The above poem was 
w^ritten b}' Mr. Longfellow to accompany thse paintings. 



INDIAN HISTORY AND REMAINS. n 

They were destroved in the fire which burned the first 
Science Hall, in 1884. Mr. Longfellow never visited 
Madison, but after his death his daughter married Mr. 
Joseph Thorpe of this city. 

Indian History and Remains. 

From immemorial time the Four Lake region was the 
seat of Indian communities. Well marked totem mounds 
are seen on the grounds of the Insane Asylum, one a deer, 
another a bird with outstretched wings. Along the north 
shore of Mendota are man}^ interesting remains which 
ought to be preserved to posterit}. The burial tumuli 
are on the hiirh o^round; below them the totem mounds 
of bear, squirrel and other animals. Between these and 
the shore stood the village, its site indicated by well- 
marked corn hills, the same ground and the same hills 
being used by the Indians year after year. Other mounds 
mav be seen at Eaixle Heiirhts and at Merrill Sprin^-s at 
the western end of Mendota. These mounds are not 
the work of some prehistoric race, as is popularly be- 
lieved. Here, as elsewhere, they were made by the 
Indians, some of them after the whites came into the 
Mississippi valley. 

In 1828, when this region was first visited by white 
people, there were no Indians within the present city 
limits; but along the north shore of Mendota were sev- 
eral Winnebago villages. Mrs. John H. Kenzie, wife 
of the Indian agent of the government at Fort Winne- 
bago, accompanied her husband from that place to Chi- 
cago in 1831. On the ninth of March they passed these 
encampments. In her book, " Waubun, the Early Day 



12 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

in the Northwest," she speaks of the " matted lodges 
clustering beneath the trees and the Indians in their 
primitive costumes." Madison is somewhat thrillingly 
connected with the famous Black Hawk war of 1832. 
On the twentieth of Jul\% in that year, Black Hawk, flee- 
ing from the white troopers, led his exhausted band of 
Sacs across the present site of Madison in the attempt 
to escape across the Mississippi. The Indians came over 
the Yahara river near the Williamson street bridge, 
passed over the low ground to the Capitol hill, skirted 
this and marched over University hill, and away north- 
west toward the Wisconsin river. That night the white 
camped just be3^ond the Yaliara. On the twenty-first 
of July they followed the track of the Indians. Two 
Indian stragglers were shot near the Yahara. One of 
these calmh^ met death as he sat on a newly-made grave — 
probably that of his wife. The battle of Wisconsin, 
Heights was fought on the evening of the twenty-first, 
in which one white man and several Indians were slain. 
A few days later, at Bad Axe, on the Mississippi, Black 
Hawk's band was almost annihilated and his power 
crushed forever. 

Mr. Geo. W. Stoner, a Madison pioneer, remembers 
fresh Indian graves within the city limits. The sand 
ridge between lakes Wingra and Monona was a place 
of hidian burial. With the body was placed a blanket, 
a gun or bow and arrows, a shirt, moccasins and trinkets. 
The place was marked by poles cut with a tomahawk. 
For many years the red men were familiar iigures in the 
early days of the city, riding single tile on their ponies 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CITY. 



13 



or pitching their tepees alono- tlie shore. Gradually they 
have been confined to their reservations and are only 
seen now when a group is brought down to attend the 
United States court. 

" Alas, for them, their day is o'er, 

Their hi^-hts are out from shore to shore, 
No more for them the wild deer bounds, 
The plow is on their hunting grounds." 

Pictures of Black Hawk and other Indians celebrated 
in Wisconsin history may be seen at the State Historical 
library, as well as a large collection of articles belonging 
to the Indians. 

Historical Sketch of the City. 

Madison was chosen to be the capitol of Wisconsin 
Territory at the first meeting of the legislature held at 
Belmont, Lafayette county, in 1836. The land was 
owned by James Duane Doty, of Green Ba}^ and S. T. 
Mason, of Michigan, who had paid for it $1.25 per acre. 
There were at that time five white men in Dane county, 
none in Madison. The first white family to settle here 
was that of Eben Peck, who put up a log house on what 
is now No. 128 S. Butler street. The structure stood 
frotn 1837 to 1857. John Catlin, the first postmaster, 
put up the tirst frame house where the Postoflice now 
stands. The corner-stone of the old Capitol was laid 
July 4, 1837. It was built of stone taken from Maple 
BluH', and ferried across the lake to the foot of S. Ham- 
ilton street. The inside finish was sawed from the tim- 
ber growing on the hill where now stands the Governor's 
residence, the sawmill being located on the present site 
of Conklin's ice-houses. The first white child born here, 



J. THE CITY OF MADISON. 

September 14, 1848, was appropriately named Wiscon- 
siana Peck. The first school-house stood on the north- 
east corner of S. Pinckney and E. Dayton streets, on the 
spot now occupied by Dr. Lyman's home. Becoming 
crowded, a broad shelf reached by a ladder was placed 
across one end of the room for the little pupils. David 
A. Wright, still living in Madison, taught this school in 
1844. The legislature first met here November 26, 1838. 
A hotel was put up and a newspaper started that year. 
A church was built in 1846. It still stands on S. Web- 
ster street. Tiie telegraph came in 1848. A grand event 
was the arrival of the first railroad train. Twenty-five 
hundred people came in thirty-tw^o coaches; fire compa- 
nies from Milwaukee rode on flat-cars; there w^as a 
grand procession, with dinner and speeches in the park. 

The University of Wisconsin was opened in February, 
1848, in the building of the Female academy — wdiere 
the High School now stands. This was a preparatory 
course. The college courses date from 1850. 

Madison became a city March 4, 1856. Its growth 
has been slow but substantial. In 1855 Dr. Lyman C. 
Draper said: "We now have a population of 6,800; by 
i860 we shall number 20,000." But the tide of immi- 
gration passed to Milwaukee, St. Paul and other places. 
Dr. Draper's prophecy did not come true for half a cen- 
tur\\ The folio w^ing figures show the city's growth: 



1837, population 3 


1880, 


popul 


ation 


10,324 


1S40 146 


1890 






i3,4^^> 


1850 1,672 


1900 






19,164 


i860 6,681 


1905 






25,000 


1S70 9,176 




(s, 


uburbs included) 



THE CAPITOL AND PARK. 



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Madison has been an academic town, with little manu- 
facturing. The past ten years have witnessed important 
chano-es. Ten thousand souls have been added to the 
population ; the University has expanded enormously ;. 
farmers are moving into the city to educate their chil- 
dren ; manufactures have been established; the tobacco 
business is centering here; railroad facilities have in- 
creased. The old quiet Madison is being transformed 
into a modern city. 

The Capitol and Park. 

The visitor to Madison naturally comes first to the 
center of the city, the great square of business blocks 
surrounding the fine park, and the stately Corinthian 
Capitol standing diagonally across it. The first Capitol 
stood from 1837 to 1863. The central part of the pres- 
ent building was then put up. The iron dome was put 
on in 1870. In 1882 the north and south wrings were 
added. One miillion dollars have been expended on the 
structure and grounds. February 27, 1904, a fire de- 
stroyed the interior of the capitol which has been tem- 
porarily repaired. A new structure will soon take its 
place. The following facts about the present capitol 
will be of interest. 

From the base to the eagle upon the flag-staft'the dis- 
tance is two hundred and twenty-five feet. From east 
to w^est the building is two hundred and twenty-six feet 
and from north to south three hundred and ninety-six. 
The general plan is a cross; two corridors intersect at 
the rotunda where one has a view into the lofty concave 
of the dome. On the first floor are the executive cham- 



j5 the city of madison. 

bers and offices of the various state departments. In 
the east wing is the Senate chamber. The marble statue 
of the genius of Wisconsin (in the rotunda), a young and 
graceful female with her hand resting on an eagle's head, 
is the work of Mary F. Mears, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 
This marble bird recalls " Old Abe," the famous war 
eagle of Wisconsin, whose stut^ed body was destro3^ed 
in the capitol fire February 27, 1904. Miss Mears is a 
pupil of the sculptor St. Gaudens; she made the statue 
of Francis Willard now in the capital at Washington, 
D. C. 

On the second floor are the chambers of the Supreme 
Court; headquarters of the Wisconsin G. A. R. (now 
temporarily at No. 117 N. Hamilton street); State Li- 
brary Commission ; Superintendent of Public Instruction ; 
Railroad Rate Commission and Bank Examiner. In the 
east wing is the Assembly chamber. 

On the third floor of the south wing are the rooms of 
the Dairy and Food Commission; the Board of Agricul- 
ture; the Adjutant General; and Regents of the Normal 
Schools. 

The fourth floor south wing contains the State Fish 
Commission and Legislative Committee rooms. 

The north wing third floor has the Legislative Refer- 
ence rooms; the fourth floor is unoccupied. 

In the basement are the vaults of the Secretary of 
State, store rooms, engine and boiler rooms. 

The Capitol Park 

Is nine hundred and fourteen feet square, comprising 
fourteen and one half acres and corners exactly to the 



THE CAPITOL PARK. 



17 



four cardinal points of the compass. The land was given 
to the state by the original owners, Messrs. Doty and 
Mason. It may be of interest to remember that the 
world-famous great pyramid of Egypt covers the same 
space as this park. The park is seventy feet above the 
lakes. It is most beautiful in summer with its smooth 
lawn, beds of flowers, numerous trees and chattering 
grey squirrels. These little creatures are fed every day, 
and were it not for ^the dogs would be even tamer than 
they are. It is a common sight to see them taking nuts 
from the hands of children. A broad granolithic walk 
goes around the outside edge of the park; a concrete 
driveway extends about the building with egress at the 
four irates. The stone iratewavs at the entrances are 
part of a $30,000 fence which formerly surrounded the 
park. On the gate standards are female figures repre- 
senting Melpomone, muse of Tragedy, with the mask, 
and Ceres, Flora and Pomona, deities of flowers and 
harvests. At the southeast angle of the Capitol a foun- 
tain plays throughout the summer; its basin contains 
carp, trout and other fish. Near the building on the 
same side is a public drinking fountain. Four cannon, 
captured by the Fourteenth regiment Wisconsin volun- 
teers at Pittsburg Landing, April 7, 1862, stand in the 
park. In front of the east wing is a female figure w^th 
the w^atchword "Forward." This statue was the Wis- 
consin women's memorial at the Chicago Worlds Fair 
in 1893. It is the work of a Madison lady, Jean P. 
Miner, daughter of Rev. H. A. Miner, editor of the 
Northwestern Mail, formerly published here. 



l8 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

Tour Number One. 

A Tour Around the Capitol Square. 
The visitor, after seeing the Capitol and park, then 
turns to the buildings and other objects of interest about 
the square. Starting from the south entrance to the 
park we observe tirst the broad street going down to 
the bank of lake Monona. This is named Monona Av- 
enue. Walking down its western side (the right hand 
side going toward lake Monona) we pass the G. A. R. 
Headquarters, a stone building adjoining the Avenue 
Hotel. This is open to visitors. Here are civil war 
memorials, pictures, records, etc. It is the home of the 
Lucius Fairchild Post, Grand Arni}^ of the Republic, of 
the Woman's Relief Corps and other affiliated societies. 
A few steps beyond is the elegant and'commodious Club 
House of the Madison Elks, No. 120 Monona avenue, 
opened in 1902. It contains a bowling alley in the base- 
ment, parlors, reading, card and cloak rooms on the first 
floor. The upper story is taken up by a large, well 
appointed lodge hall. Continuing the walk from the 
Elk's club house, we pass the Home of the Late David 
Atwood, 204 Monona avenue. General Atwood came 
to Madison in 1847; he died in 1889. In 1852 he founded 
the Wisconsin State Journal; as editor, politician, mayor 
of the city, member of the state legislature and the U. S. 
congress, he exerted a wide influence. On July 14, 1854, 
a ^'reat mass meeting was held on the east steps of the 
Capitol at Madison. This w^as the beginning of the Re- 
publican party, and no man was more active on that day 
than David Atwood. He was a member of the com- 



TOUR NUMBER ONE. jp 

mittee on resolutions, and was one of those who drafted 
and presented the platform of that memorable meeting. 

At the lake end of Monona avenue is another historic 
house, the Home of the Late General Lucius A. 
Fairchild. It is a large redbrick structure with extensive 
o-rounds enclosed ;\vith a hio-h board fence. Till his death 
in 1896 General Fairchild was an admired and beloved 
citizen. He was a "forty-niner," making the trip over 
the plains with ox teams; a soldier in nine great battles of 
the civil war, losing an arm at Gettysburg; thrice elected 
Governor of Wisconsin; U. S. consul at Liverpool and 
Paris ; minister to Spain ; commander-in-chief of the Grand 
Army of the Republic; he rounded out his brilliant ca- 
reer in the quiet, unselfish service of a private citizen. 

The view from the .foot of Monona avenue holds us 
for a few moments: the open lake and the green hills 
which frame it in. 

Returning up the avenue we go west one block be- 
yond capitol square, passing the Park hotel, to the Dane 
County Court House (207 W. Main street), with jail 
and sherill's house adjoining (219 W. Main street). The 
court house contains the offices of the County Clerk, 
Treasurer, Register of Deeds, Sheriff, Assessors and 
Overseers on the first floor; on the upper floors are 
rooms of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, the County 
Court and the Municipal Court. The building was fin- 
ished in 1882, and cost $180,000. 

Opposite the court house is St. Raphael's Church, a 
large rectangular building of sandstone, built in 1864 at 
a cost of $65,000. The parochial school buildings are 
in the rear. 



20 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

Going back now to the corner at the Park hotel, we 
walk down Carroll street to W. Washington avenue, 
passing the Wisconsin Telephone building on the way. 
This was the site of the First Baptist church. Here 
Emerson, Lowell, Horace Greeley and other celebrities 
have lectured. West Washington Avenue is the 
finest street in the city. It runs west for over one 
mile, crossing the tracks of the Illinois Central and Chi- 
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads. Bordered with 
beautiful homes, with w^ell-kept lawns and boulevards, 
it IS a dehght to the eye. At the corner of W. Wash- 
ington avenue and Carroll street is the very complete 
plant of the Grace Episcopal society, consisting of the 
church, erected in 1858; Cornelia Vilas Guild hall, erected 
in 1894, and the rectory, erected in 1893, at a total cost 
of $70,000. One block beyond Grace church, at No. 202 
W. Washington avenue, is the First Congregational 
church. Its cost was $60,000, built of sandstone in 1874. 
The brick vestry was a predecessor of the present 
church. At 303 W. Washington avenue is the St. Re- 
gina convent, in charge of the Dominican Sisters. 

Continuing our walk down North Carroll street, we 
cross W. Mifflin and State streets at the corner; passing 
along N. Carroll to W. Dayton street we are in front of 
the new Baptist Church, erected in 1902 at a cost of 
$25,000. Here an interesting work is being done to 
reach the boys of the city. A gymnasium, lockers and 
swimming tank have been built in the basement and a 
reading room is open every evening. The church is al- 
ways open to inspection. 



TOUR NUMBER ONE. 



21 



Opposite the Baptist church is the new Free Library, 
the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, costing $75,000. It 
is of red brick with trimmings of Bedford granite in the 
style of old English universit}^ buildings. At this writ- 
ing the structure is unhnished. It will contain the books 




Free Library erected 1905, cost $75,000. The gitt of Andrew Carnegie. 

of the city free library ; a School for Library Training will 
be opened in this building by the Wisconsin Library Com- 
mission. 

Turning east along W. Dayton street we see the Mad- 
ison High School It was put up in 1873 on the site of 
the old Female Academy, enlarged in 1887, and has cost 



TOUR NUMBER ONE. 23 

$65,000. Nearly six hundred pupils are enrolled, this 
being the largest High School in the state with one ex- 
ception, that of the West Side High School in Milwaukee. 
The present antiquated edifice wall soon be replaced, in 
accordance with a recent popular vote, by a commodious 
modern High School, with manual training, commercial 
course, domestic science and gymnasium. The new 
building w^ill accommodate one thousand pupils. 

A word about School Facilities in Madison. We 
are justly proud of these. The influence of the great State 
University reaches down through all the grades and is 
felt by every pupil and teacher. From the first courses 
the way is open and the pupil is incited to acquire a 
thorough education and receive a University degree. 
Thirty-five hundred pupils are enrolled in the public 
schools of the city; these are accommodated in eleven 
buildings and taught by ninety-one teachers. Eighteen 
per cent, of the pupils enrolled are in the high school, 
this being the largest proportion in the state. Several 
high grade private and parochial schools are training 
one thousand more pupils, so that the total number of 
pupils in the schools of the city is about forty-five hun- 
dred (this does not include the students in the university). 

The High School extends along Wisconsin avenue up 
which we now turn. We are impressed by this broad 
and beautiful thoroughfare and the sight of the Capitol 
at its southern end. At the corner of Wisconsin avenue 
and E.Johnson street is the Masonic Temple, a redbrick 
building, formerly the Presbyterian church. Hiram 
Lodge, No. 50, F. & A. M.; Madison Lodge, No. 5, 
F. & A. M.; Madison Chapter and Council; Robert 



24 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

Macoy Commandery, and Madison Chapter of the East- 
ern Star meet here. A club room, open to members and 
visiting brethren, is in the basement. 

At 223 Wisconsin avenue is the site of the old store 
kept by Jehu Lewis. Over this store was the first 
theatre in Madison, 1851-52. A private school taught by 
Prof. George, an Englishman, was held in the same hall. 

Let us now retrace our steps along Wisconsin avenue 
toward the Capitol. At the corner of the avenue and 
Dayton street are three churches. On the southwest 
corner is Christ Presbyterian Church. It is of red 
brick, built in 1892; cost sixty thousand dollars. 

On the northeast corner of Wisconsin avenue and E. 
Dayton streets is the First Methodist Church, a plain 
large stone building, finished in 1876 at a cost of fifty 
thousand dollars. The Unitarian Church, a small stone 
building, with rounded windows and stone porch, stands 
across E. Dayton street from the First Methodist church. 
It cost eighteen thousand dollars, erected in 1886. 

We walk one blcck toward the Capitol and are at the 
City Hall, corner W. Mifiiin and Wisconsin avenue. It 
is of grey stone, three stories high, surmounted by a box- 
like clock tower. When built in 1858 it was thought to 
be an imposing edifice. The Madison free library fills 
the first floor. The books are soon to be removed to the 
new building on N. Carroll street. This was the first 
free public library in the state: opened in May, 1875. 
Eighteen thousand volumes are on its shelves. 

On the second floor are the Mayor's ofiice. Alder- 
men's chamber, rooms of the City Treasurer, Clerk and 
Engineer and Board of Water Commissioners. An un- 



TOUR NUMBER ONE. 2< 

used hall is on the third floor. Fuller Opera House 
(Nos. 6 to lo W. Mitflin street) adjoins City Hall. This 
is an up-to-date theatre, fire proof, seats twelve hundred, 
built in 1890. 

A few steps across Wisconsin avenue brings us to the 
Postoffice; erected in 187 1 of light stone, three stories 
high. The lower floor is taken up by the postofflce de- 
partment. E. W. Keyes, the present Postmaster, has 
been appointed to this oflice by six Presidents of the 
United States and is now serving his seventh term. The 
oflice of Pension Examiner, United States Marshal, Ref- 
eree in Bankruptcy, Collector of Internal Revenue and 
other federal officials are on the second floor; the third 
floor contains the chamber of the United Sates court. 

Going one block east from the postofflce we reach N. 
Pinckney street. A block north on this street is the 
Woman's Rest Rooms. Here the wives and daughters 
of farmers are entertained; rooms are also provided for 
young women who come as strangers to the city. The 
house is always open and information is cheerfully given 
by the matron in charge. 

The light brick church corner N. Pinckney and N. 
Hamilton streets is the German Evangelical Church; 
built in 1865, and valued at fourteen thousand dollars. 
Another block east along Mifflin street stands the Ger- 
man Methodist Church in red brick. It cost eight 
thousand dollars; erected in 1864. 

Returning to N. Pinckney street and going south we 
are at Market Square. This is the head of E. Washing- 
ton Avenue, overshadowed by the tall and now unused 



26 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 



water tower. Scores of farmers' wagons, with hay, wood 
and other produce, line the square, giving a busy aspect 
to the place. In the space below the tower is held a 
monthly horse sale, when expert buyers from Chicago 




View of cily east from; 

and Milwaukee dicker with the local owmers. Further 
down E. Washington avenue, at No. 322, the new St. 
John's German Lutheran Church is being built; it 
will cost $30,000. A little beyond, across the avenue at 
No. 531, is Zion Church, German Lutheran ; it is a new 
building, dating from 1900, and cost $8,000. The Louisa 
M. Brayton School is on the south side of the avenue. 
This is the Third Ward school and named for the lady 
who taught the first school in Madison in 1838. 

East Washington avenue is a straight broad street 
stretching eastward for two miles, past the great facto- 
ries of the cit}^, across the Yahara to the city limits. A 
magnificent plan for its improvement has been prepared. 



TOUR NUMBER TWO. 27 

It will be graded and macadamized; a boulevard, with 
curbing, shrubbery, flowers and grass will fill its center^ 
leaving ample space for teams on each side. This will 
add greatly to the beauty of the eastern half of the city. 



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roof of University Hall. 

Regaining Pinckney street and the Capitol square, w^e 
walk south past the banks and shops to the corner of 
E. Main street. Here King street, with electric car 
tracks, goes down the hill to the railroad depots. By 
walking to 410 E. Main street we may see St. Patrick's 
Catholic Church. Built in 1888 and enlarged in 1894, it 
is valued at $40,000. Near by, at 15 S. Webster street, is 
a small white wooden church occupied by the St. Paul 
Presbyterian Society (German). It was the First House 
OF Worship in Madison, built in 1846. In 1847 the first 
bell in the city was placed in its steeple. Many well 
known American authors and scholars have lectured 
here in days gone by. Retracing our steps westward 



28 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

along Main street, we reach Monona avenue, the point 
from which our tour began. 

The newcomer is puzzled by our Street Diver- 
sions. By remembering that the streets are named from 
the point where they cross the four broad avenues, we 
shall soon "get on to the combination." Thus Main 
street, which passes the capitol park on its south side, is 
divided into East and West Main from where it crosses 
Monona avenue; Carroll street skirts the western side 
of the park ; it is North and South Carroll from its cross- 
ing at W. Washington avenue. Mifflin on the north 
side becomes East and West Mitfiin from Wisconsin 
avenue. Pinckney passes the park on the east and is 
divided into South and North Pinekney by market 
square, the head of E. Washington avenue. All streets 
parallel to these are similarly divided and similarly named. 
Our streets were originally named for the signers of the 
constitution of the United States. Hence such names as 
Hancock street, Langdon street, Pinckney street, Rut- 
ledge street, etc. 

Tour Number T-wo. 

To THE University and W^estern end of the City. 

We may continue the tour of the city by the street 
cars. These run on a twelve-minute schedule and pass 
the park on all sides. From where we are now stand- 
ing at the head of Monona avenue, the line will take us 
to both the eastern and the western limits of the city. 
We will board a west-bound car, ride down Carroll 
street to State street and the University of Wisconsin. 



TOUR NUMBER TWO. 29» 

By looking to the right as the car crosses W. Johnson 
street, we ma}^ see the Church and Parochial School 
of the Holy Redeemer Society. At W. Oilman street 
No. 250, over Sumner's drug store, we read the sign 
" Wisconsin Academy." This well-equipped and thorough 
private school prepares pupils of both sexes for the 
University. Students come here from all over the state 
and the northwest. Miss Charlotte Richmond is prin- 
cipal. 

We leave the car at the Lower Campus, a level field 
used for athletics and military drill. Two minutes' walk 
takes us to the Armory and Gymnasium, standing on 
the lake shore. It is built in the Norman style, of red 
brick. Put up in 1894, ^^ ^^^^ $130,000. Dimensions, 
200 by 100 feet. On the ground floor are a swimming 
tank, 20 by 80 feet, baths, lockers, bowling alley and gun 
room; offices of the Athletic Director and Commander of 
the University regiment. The latter person, Charles A. 
Curtis, is a colonel in the United States army. All fresh- 
men and sophomore male students are required to take 
military drill. On the second floor are the trophy room 
and the gymnasium, which is frequently used as an audi- 
torium — the largest in the city. A baseball cage and 
running track are on the third floor. Behind the armory 
are the rowing tank used by the U. W. crew and the 
University boat house. 

The new building of the University Young Men's 
Christian Association stands near the armory on the 
west. It represents an expense of $50,000, and contains, 
dining room, halls, class rooms and students' rooms. 




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TOUR NUMBER TWO. 3I 

The State Historical Library is Madison's finest 
edifice. Built in the Renaissance-Ionic style, of Bedford 
limestone, in 1900, and costing $620,000, it is a source 
of pride to all citizens of Wisconsin. The pure lines, the 
deep-set windows and doors, the massive yet graceful 
columns of the loggia, hold and please the eye. 

Administered by the State Historical society, the 
building houses two distinct libraries: that of the State 
Historical society and the library of the University. 
When the northwest wing is added the total capacity 
will be six hundred and forty thousand volumes. It is 
fitted with steam heat, electric light, elevator and steel 
shelves. Chief features: first floor, the corridor with its 
mosaic pavement and the departmental library rooms; 
second floor (elevator runs from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.) 
contains the great reading room with chairs and tables 
for tw^o hundred and forty readers, and a specialized 
library of five thousand volumes. From the reading 
room one ma}' walk out on the loggia on the east front. 
Third floor has a lecture hall, seminary rooms and visit- 
ors' gallery, where the best view of the reading room 
is obtained. On the fourth floor are the interesting and 
valuable collections of the Wisconsin Historical society. 
The genial janitor will show the visitor the largest col- 
lection of prehistoric copper implements in America, por- 
traits of famous Indians and objects of Indian art, and 
relics of the early settlers and the Revolutionary and 
Civil wars, rare antique books from Europe, over 200 
portraits of Wisconsin celebrities, and an art collection 
including the gifts of the late President of the Univer-^ 
sity, Charles Kendall Adams, and his wife. 



\2 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

The State Historical library is one of the half dozen 
great reference libraries in the United States. Harvard 
■College and the New York State library alone exceed it in 
number of books on America. Only the Congressional 
library has a greater number of newspaper files, but in 
the early newspapers this library is superior. In gene- 
alogy it is only exceeded by the New England gene- 
alogical society. No other American library has so com- 
plete a set of magazines indexed in Poole. It is the larg- 
est and best equipped working library west of the Alle- 
ghanies. 

The home of the President of the University, Chas. 
R. Van Hise, is at No. 772 Langdon street, opposite the 
Historical library. The home of John B. Parkinson, 
Vice President of the University, is at No. 803 State street 

Having finished our inspection of the Historical library 
we cross Park street to the Upper Campus. The ar- 
rangement of the buildings is in two parallel lines. Univer- 
sity hall at the upper end and the smooth sloping lawn 
between. Walking north on Park street toward Lake 
Mendota we pass Science Hall in red brick. It was 
built in 1887. The lecture rooms and laboratories of the 
departments of physics, geology and medicine are in this 
building. Mineralogical and geological museums on the 
second and third floors are open to the public. 

North of Science hall, between it and the lake, is the 
Chemical Laboratory. Of light brick, built in 1885, it 
contains the lecture rooms, offices and laboratories of 
the chemical department. This department will soon 



TOUR NUMBER TWO. oo 

find a home in the hirge new Chemical Hall costing 
$100,000, which stands on the campus corner of Charter 
street and University avenue. 

The Machine Shops are behind the Chemical labora- 
tory. They were put up in 1885 and enlarged in 1894. The 
tall chimney overlooking the small heating plant shows 
us whence comes the heat for all the buildings on the 
eastern part of the campus, including the Armory and 
the Historical librar3^ The driveway passing between 
the heating plant and the machine shops takes us to a 
blufl'from which we get a good view of Mendota lake. 

Coming back to the foot of the upper Campus at Park 
street we ascend the hill. The building on the left in 
bufi^ stone with a clock tower, is the old Library Hall. 
It cost $35,000 and dates from 1878. Here is the audi- 
torium used for the weekl}^ convocations on Frida}- noon. 
The rooms of the University School of Music are in this 
building. (The school does a part of its work m the 
Kroncke block, corner W. Mifflin and N. Carroll 
streets.) 

Chadbourne Hall, named for Paul A. Chadbourne 
chancellor of the University, 1867-71, stands between 
Library hall and University avenue. Of light stone three 
stories high, it was built in 1871; enlarged in 1896; cost 
$130,000. This is the dormitory for young ladies, the 
only dormitory on the campus. Many students room 
in fraternity and sorority houses; most of them Hve in 
private houses. Chadbourne Hall has a gymnasium 
71 by 40 feet, two stories high at the west end. Ninety 
young ladies room in the hall. 



2A THE CITY OF MADISON. 

The Law School of dark brown stone is next above 
Library Hall. It cost $80,000, completed in 1893. Be- 
sides the lecture rooms and library of the College of Law, 
it contains the offices of the Board of Regents and of the 
University Architect. 

Directly across the campus from the Law building is 
the Engineering School, built of buff brick at a cost of 
$100,000, in 1900. It contains steam and electrical ma- 
chinery, laboratories, special library and reading room 
and auditorium, besides the offices of Dean and profes- 
sors of the school. 

North Hall is next above the engineering building ; its 
counterpart. South Hall, is opposite, above the Law 
school. They were the first buildings of the University, 
plain, box-like, stone structures, bare of ornament. 
They resemble the older dormitories of the eastern col- 
leges and, while giving the impression of age, remind us 
of conditions now outgrown. In 185 1 North Hall was 
built at a cost of $19,000. For four years this was the 
home of the University of Wisconsin ; here the students 
and professors lived and worked together. Board was 
eight}^ cents per week. The German department and 
the School of Pharmacy now occupy North Hall. In 
1855 South Hall was built (cost $20,000); it is used by 
the department of Bacteriolog}^ Greek and Hebrew, and 
Commerce. 

University Hall, or Main Hall (as it is sometimes 
called), crowns the campus hill. It is in light stone, Ro- 
man-Doric style. The main part was built in 1859. It has 



TOUR NUMBER TWO. 



35 



been remodeled; the portico, south wing and dome have 
been added. Here are a hirge lecture hall, recitation 
rooms, ladies' rest room, and the offices of the President 
of the University, University Registrar and Dean of the 
College of Letters. 

From the roof of Main Hall we may get a Magnifi- 
ciENT View of the University grounds and buildings, the 
city, the lakes and outlying country. This view gives one 
the best idea of the great size of the university and the 
natural beauty of its location. See p. lo, " Bird's-Eye 
View of the City." 

We now walk west from Main Hall. The new Chem- 
ical Hall, in light brick, is below us on the left. As we 
go, we observe shrubbery and trees of many sorts. In 
a few moments we are at the Astronomer's House 
and Washburn Observatory. The Observatory is 
the gift (1878) of Hon. Cadwallader C. Washburn. It is 
equipped with a large modern telescope and other neces- 
sary instruments. Near by is a small Students' Observ- 
atory. 

As we linger a moment for the lovely view, we can 
but praise the selection of this site for the chief educa- 
tional institution of the state. The mind is enlarged not 
only by books and teachers, but by the beautiful in na- 
ture. Fortunate in both respects are the youths and 
maidens who pass here their years of training. 

Close by the Observatory on the southern slope of the 
hill is Agricui.tural Hall. It was built at a cost of 
$150,000 in 1903; material, light mottled brick with stone 



36 



THE CITY OF MADISON 



trimmings. A large auditorium (the best on the campus), 
lecture rooms, offices of the Dean and professors and a 
special library fill the building. Fifteen thousand dollars 
a year are given for the work of the agricultural depart- 
ment by the United States government. William A. 
Henry, Dean of the department, is a recognized author- 
ity on agriculture. 

Hiram Smith Hall, the dairy building, is a few hun- 
dred feet west of Agricultural Hall. It receives its name 
from a former well known dairyman and member of the 
Board of Regents. Cost $40,000; opened in 1893, and 
since enlaro'ed and cold storac^e rooms added. An in- 
teresting sight may be witnessed here in the morning. 
Farmers are unloading their milk wagons and reloading 
with the milk from which the cream has been separated. 
Inside the separators are at work, and the visitor may 
be initiated into the latest processes of butter and cheese 
making. The Babcock milk test for determining the 
quantity of cream in milk has been adopted all over the 
world. It was invented and freely given to the world 
by Prof. Stephen M. Babcock, chief chemist of the Ag- 
ricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wis- 
consin. Its value to the farmers of this state alone has 
been placed at millions of dollars. In 1903 the Wiscon- 
sin Legislature presented Prof. Babcock with a valuable 
bronze medal in recognition of his service. 

Horticultural Hall is a few steps north of the 
Dairy building; $43,000 were expended in its construc- 
tion in 1896. This group of buildings has its own heating 
plant. 



TOUR NUMBER TWO 



37 



To the west upon the level <^rounds are the barns of 
the University. The Horse barn is first, the Dairy barn 
farther to the west. Here the visitor may see some of 
the finest stock in America; the process of scientific feed- 
inr^ and care of cows w^ill be shown bv the intelli^rent 
and courteous attendants. Dean Wm. A. Henry's house 
stands by itself not far from Horticultural Hall. 

Camp Randall is the University athletic field, one- 
quarter of a mile southwest of the campus, easily recog- 
nized by the high board fence and grand stands. The 
lot contains forty-two acres; ten acres are enclosed. This 
ground was a military camp during the civdl war, where 
over 70,000 men were quartered at various times. The 
famous Iron Brigade, composed for the most part of 
Madison and Dane county men, were quartered here. 
In 1893 the state purchased it for the university, paying 
$25,000. The main grand stand seats 15,000; the new 
one 5,000. It is named for Alexander W. Randall, gov- 
ernor of the state 1858-1862. 

University Data: TheUniversity of Wisconsin com- 
prises two main divisions — the Department of Graduate 
Study and the Undergraduate Department. These in- 
clude the following colleges: The College of Letters and 
Science, Edwin A. Birge, Dean. It embraces the schools 
of Economics, History, Commerce, Education, Phar- 
macy, Music and the Washburn Observatory. The Col- 
lesfe of Encrineerinof, Frederick E. Turneaure, Dean, and 
the College of Agriculture, WiUiam A. Henry, Dean. 

Charles R. Van Hise Ph. D. L. L. D. is President of 
the University; elected in 1903. He has been connected 



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THE CITY OF MADISON. 



with the institution for twenty-two years, as student and 
teacher. 

Financial management rests in the Board of Regents,, 
eleven of whom are chosen from the congressional dis- 
tricts of the state and two from the state at large. The 
President of the University and the state Superintendent 
of Education are ex-otiicio members of the Board. 

The University has three sources of hnancial support: 
the income of federal grants, private gifts, and taxation,, 
the last being the chief source of revenue. By an act 
of the legislature of 1905 a tax of two-sevenths of a mill 
was laid on all the property in the state ; this will afford 
an income of over half a million dollars. 

The Grounds of the University comprise four hundred 
and fifty acres, extending along the shore of Mendota. 
for more than a mile. Twenty-nine buildings, fifteen of 
which are used for teaching, stand upon these grounds. 

The University was opened in 1850, the first class of 
two graduating in 1854. There were then four profes- 
sors and fifteen students. Today the faculty and admin- 
istrative force numbers two hundred and seventy-five 
and the total number of students is three thousand six 
hundred. In 1904 the University held an appropriate 
celebration of its jubilee year; representatives of nearly 
all the great Universities in the world were present;, 
President V^an Hise was inaugurated; four hundred and 
sixteen degrees were conferred on the graduates of the 
institution for that year; while many honorary degrees 
were conferred on men prominent in the world of learn- 
ing. 



TOUR NUMBER TWO. 



39 



This enormous expansion is due to the co-operation of 
the state high schools, whose graduates naturally come 
here to complete their education ; to the granting of free 
tuition for Wisconsin students; to the system of co-edu- 
cation (dating from 1869), whereby equal advantages 
are given in the University to both sexes; and to the wise 
policy of locating the schools of agriculture and engi- 
neering at the seat of the state University, instead of 
separating them as some of the w^estern states have 
done. 

Recocrnized throuo^hout the educational world for its 
high standards and thorough work; numbering on its 
faculty scientists, scholars and authors of international 
repute, among its graduates governors, congressmen 
and leaders in all walks of life; firmly rooted in the 
hearts of the people of the state — may this great and 
beneficent University endure so long as the skies bend 
above the hills of Wisconsin and her rivers run to the 
sea! 

Our tour of the Universit}- completed, we take another 
west-bound car on University avenue and ride past Uni- 
versity Heights, Wingra Park and West Lawn, to 
Forest Hill Cemetery. This section of the city is fil- 
ling rapidly with high-class homes. New buildings are 
seen on every side. The high ground, afi:brding a view of 
the city and lakes, the good drainage and excellent neigh- 
borhood, nearness to the University and the street cars, 
attract the home-seeker. Forest Hill cemetery is three 
miles west from the capitol. It was purchased in 1856 
for $10,000. Two groups of graves are noteworthy, 



.Q THE CITY OF MADISON. 

one of Union soldiers, known as " Soldiers' Rest," and 
one of one hundred and thirty Confederate soldiers,, 
called " Confederates' Rest," who died while prisoners 
of war at Camp Randall. On May 30th every year 
memorial exercises are held in the grand stand. Both 
groups of graves are strewn with flowers and honored 
by a salute of guns. 

Calvary Cemetary (Roman Catholic) is directly op- 
posite Forest Hill Cemetary. It was opened in i860. 
Both inclosures are quiet and beautiful, with driveways 
and walks winding through the shrubbery and beneath 
the trees. 

Henry Vilas Park and the Lake Wingra 
Improvement. 

On our way back from the Cemetaries we may get off 
at Wingra Park and walk south toward Lake Wingra, 
where we see the work being done upon the Henry 
Vilas Park of sixty acres. This is the gilt of Hon. and 
Mrs. Wm. F. Vilas in memory of their son. (See page 9 
for description of Lake Wingra improvements.) 

Along the nortn shore of Lake Wingra are the ex- 
tensive and lovely grounds of Edgewood Villa, the seat 
of Sacred Heart Academy. This was the former home 
of Cadwallader C. Washburn, Governor of Wisconsin 
in 1872-74. His gift of the Washburn Observatory to 
the University in 1878 w^as followed by a deed of this 
estate to the Dominican Sisters in 1881 for educational 
purposes. The School is for young ladies only. The 
largest oaks in this part of the state stand on these 
grounds close to the lake shore drive. 



TOUR NUMBER THREE. 



41 



At loio Grant street, Wingra Park, is the comfortable 
home of Henry C. Adams, Member of Congress from 
the Second district. 

Tour Number Three. 

Elmside and the Eastern Limits. 

The Street car takes us back over the route we have 
traced to our starting point at the head of Monona ave- 
nue. Keeping our seats in this car we run down King 
street on our w^ay to the 

E^astern Part of the City. 

Crossing the raih'oad tracks w^e see the East Madison 
depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road and 
the depot of the Chicago & Northwestern road. The 
latter will soon be replaced by a much needed modern 
structure. Riding along Implement Row we observe 
the warehouses of the great Harvester Companies, from 
which a wide region is supplied with farm implements. 
We go through the sixth ward, of the city, tilled with 
homes, past the new Irving Grammar School and the 
Jacques Marquette Grammar School to the Yahara river. 
Upon the low ground to the left of the car line and west 
of the river are several large manufacturing plants; the 
Northern Electrical Company, The Gisholt Machine 
Compan}^ and the Fuller and Johnson Farm Implement 
Works. We observe the improvements made upon the 
Yahara; the stream has been straightened and deep- 
ened for the navigation between the lakes. The new 
cement bridge over which the electric cars pass, spans 
the stream in a single arch. 



42 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 




The Williamson street bridge, built in 1905. 



From the Yahara river our ride takes us along Win- 
nebago street, Atwood avenue and Milwaukee avenue, 
throuorh the suburbs of Elmside and Fair Oaks to the 
end of the line at the new car barns. Half a mile from 
the Yahara we pass the entrance to Lake Shore Park, 
a tract of several acres fitted up with a summer theatre, 
bowling alleys, lunch counter and other attractions of a 
hike shore resort. Its easy access by street cars attracts 
large numbers of people throughout the summer. 

At Elmside and the region about the car barns we see 
the signs of rapid and solid growth. Several new fac- 



ITOUR NUMBER FOUR. ^^ 

tories have recenth^ been erected, brino-ing here a class 
of industrious artizans and machinists who build the neat 
new homes going up all about this section. A large 
beet sugar factory is being erected here. Five years 
ago there was not a single factory in this part of Madi- 
son and but yery few houses. Thus the growth of the 
western end of the city is balanced by that at its eastern 
extremity. 

Tour Number Four. 

The W. Maix Street and E. Johxson Street Car Ride. 

Coming back to Capitol square oyer the same route, 
we change to the other electric line at the Park Hotel. 
This takes us down West Main street past the county 
buildings to the depot of the Illinois Central and the 
West Madison depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul railroad. 

Keeping our seats the car will return to Capitol square, 
go east on Mifflin street and down North Hamilton to a 
new section of the town. At the foot of S. Hamilton street 
is the tasteful new church of the Norwegian Lutheran 
Society, in red brick, put up in 1903, cost $13,000. We 
ride on E. Johnson street past the Madison Water 
Works. The plant is open to inspection. The water is 
remarkabl}^ pure, as shown by chemical analysis; it comes 
from ten artesian wells yar3^ing in depth from 100 feet 
to 735 feet, and is pumped by direct pressure to all parts 
of the city. Fifty-tw^o gallons for each person in the 
city, or 1,501,053 gallons, are supplied per day. The 
water system represents an outlay of $414,000. 



44 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

Pursuing our tour we ride between the residences lin- 
ing the street, and turning south on Baldwin street reach 
the end of the line near the Gisholt machine shops. 
These and the other manufacturing plants may be in- 
spected by obtaining permission at the several offices. 

We return by the same route to Capitol square. We 
have now ridden some seventeen miles in the street cars. 
The whole distance can be covered at a cost of thirty- 
five cents per person, thus making these deHghtful jour- 
neys possible for all. 

Carriage Drives About the City. 

Tour Number Five. 

Raymer Drive, Owen Park, Greenbusii and S. Madison. 
Much of the cit}^ and its environs remains to be seen. 
We will take a carriage and drive up Wisconsin avenue. 
At the corner of the avenue and E. Gorham street is the 
home of Ex Senator Wm. F. Vilas, the statliest and most 
magnificent in the city. Turning west upon Langdon 
street we are in the finest residence district. These fine 
homes with lawns extending down to the lake are the 
pride of their owners. At No. 150 Langdon street is 
the home of U. S. Senator John C. Spooner. At the 
end of Langdon street we turn up the drive over the 
University campus; pass Main Hall and down to the 
sliore of the lake; from here we may drive five miles 
along the shore, through all manner of shrubs, flowering 
plants and trees to Mendota Beach at the western end of 
the lake. We are impressed by the pleasing variety of 
scenerv. Now we q;o throu^i^h an avenue of willows: 



TOUR NUMBER FIVE. 



45 



now we are on a hill with a wide stretchin^^ panorama 
of water and tields and woods; anon we are in a shaded 
woodland road with the branches interlocking above our 
heads. This carriage way known as the Raymer drive 
(opened in 1892) was built by the Madison Park and 
Pleasure Drive Ass'n. Lake Mendota is in full view 




Drive througii Universitj' grounds. 

most of the distance. Between the drive and the shore 
are many summer camps and cottages. Some of these 
may be rented and people come from long distances to 
enjoy here a few weeks of fishing, bathing and restful 
contact with nature. 

Near the end of Ra3'mer drive we may get a drink of 
cold pure water at Merrill Springs. 



46 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 



On the drive back to the city we turn south up a road 
leading to Eagle Heights. Fifteen minutes through 
thick set maple and oak woods brings us there. We stop 
where a vista of woodland, fields and water is bounded 



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igm 


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View of Madison from l-^agle Heights, Lake Mendota intervening. 

by the distant city. As we ride around the circle to the 
drive way, we may see not 100 feet from where we 
stopped for our view a group of Indian mounds; one is 
a burial mound, like an inverted bowl. Its sides, yet 
smooth and symmetrical, show the care of its builders. 
To European visitors and others who have not seen 
them these undisturbed remains of Indian art are of 
especial interest. 

In returning to the city from Eagle Heights we are 
not limited to one road. We may ride south through 
the old stone quarry and come in upon the Middleton 
road which will take us to University avenue. 

But we may see more of the parks and drives b}^ con- 
tinuing our ride to the south, past the present stone 
quarry into Owen Park, one-lialf mile west of Forest 
Hill cemetery. Many will prefer this to all the other 



TOUR NUMBER FIVE. 47 

parks of the city. Nothing has been done but lay out a 
driveway through the natural forest growth. From the 
blutl^ at the western edge of the park is a view for 
those who love rural scenery. The park receives its 
name from Prof. Edward T. Owen, who gave the land 
for the purpose. 

From Ow^en Park we drive toward the city past the 
cemeteries and University Heights along Regent street. 
Turning south on Warren street we skirt Wingra Park 
with Lake Wingra in view. Turning east along Drake 
street w^e pass through Greenbush, another flourishing 
suburb. The Madison General Hospital, a conspicuous 
building in red brick, is No. 925 Mound street. It is sur- 
rounded by extensive grounds artistically laid out, wdiich 
add materially to the general effect. Opened in 1903, it 
is already overcrowded by patients, who come from all 
parts of Dane county. A Nurses' Training School is soon 
to be established in connection with the Hospital. Thirty 
thousand dollars to erect the building and two thousand 
dollars per year to maintain it come from the voluntary 
contributions of the people. 

The Henry W. Longfellow Grammar school is just 
west of the hospital. 

At the corner of Mound and Park streets, one block 
east of the Hospital, is the synagogue of the Hebrew 
Congregation Agudas Arhem Anshi. The corner-stone 
was laid Sept. 3, 1905. 

A tw^enty minutes' drive south from the hospital 
brings us to South Madison, a suburb separated from 
the city by Monona bay. The same signs of prosperity. 



.^8 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

^hown in new houses and well-kept lawns, meet us here 
as elsewhere. The " Madison Sanitarium, a branch of 
the Battle Creek Sanitarium of Battle Creek, Mich., was 
opened in South Madison in 1903. It is a large yellow- 
painted edifice of wood overlooking lake Monona and 
the city. Its fine situation, healthful air, the skill of its 
physicians and nurses, enables it to show a very high 
percentage of cures among its patients, who come from 
all sections of the country. 

Half a mile beyond the Sanitarium are the grounds of 
the Lakeside Assembly (see p. 59) and those of the Dane 
county fair. Back to the city the road skirts the beau- 
tiful Monona bay. We follow Oregon street to Park 
street; then east on W. Washington avenue to Bedford 
street where we turn south to W. Wilson street. At this 
point on the bay shore Brittingham Park, so named 
for Mr. Thomas Brittingham who gave $8000 for the 
purpose, is to be laid out. Twenty acres of the shore 
are to be parked, thus redeeming and beautifying a 
neglected section of the citv. Follow^ing Wilson street 
past the James C. Doty Grammar School (fourth ward), 
and on through a handsome residence district we reach 
Monona avenue and complete the drive. 

Tour Number Six. 

To Orton Park, Tenney Park and Mendota Asylum. 

For the drive in the eastern portion of the town we go 
■on E. Wilson street to Implement Row, and follow 
Spaight street close to the lake with its miles of gleam- 
ing water on our right. As we enter Spaight street it 



TOUR NUMBER SIX. Ag 

skirts the bank of the lake for some distance with no 
liouses between the drive and the shore. A small park 
of one and one half acres will be laid out at this point and 
called appropriately Monona Lake Park. 

One block east we cross Brearly street. On the lake 
shore by!the w^estern end of this street formerly stood a 
large stone octagonal building three stories high. This 
was the cit}^ home of Governor L. J. Farw^ell, w4io built 
it in 1855. A few 3^ears afterwards it was sold to Mr. 
Samuel Marshall. During the Civil War it was enlarged 
and altered into a Hospital for Wounded Soldiers; 
after the w^ar it became a Soldiers' Orphans Home. 
About four years ago it was demolished. 

Orton Park, one block beyond Brearly street is a 
tree covered tract of three and one half acres. This space 
was the first regular cemetary in Madison opened about 
1849. When Forest Hill cemetery was opened (1858) 
the bodies w^ere transferred to it, and Orton Park laid out. 
Prior to 1899 ^^ ^^^ ^^^ only public park owned b}' the 
city. The name is for Harlow S. Orton, Mayor of Mad- 
ison 1877-78. 

Pursuing our drive from Orton Park along Rutledge 
street and its fine lake shore estates we reach Williamson 
street and follow it to the Yahara river. Water street 
extends along its west bank and we may drive north 
upon it to E. Washington avenue then turn east across 
the bridge. Just east of the river at the point w^e see 
the pumping station and septic tanks of the City Sew- 
erage Disposal Plant. Seventeen thousand dollars 
were expended for the plant which is run at an annual cost 




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TOUR NUMBER SIX. 



51 



of $4,000. Eveiy day 600,000 gallons of sewerage are 
purified in a combination septic tank and filter beds of 
cinder. The efiluent produced by this process is ninety 
per cent, pure and is allowed to flow oft^ into Lake Mo- 
nona. The place is open to public inspection. 

One fourth of a mile east of the Sewerage Plant is a 
small neat building standing some distance back from 
the street. This is the Contagious Hospital. Here 
cases of small pox and other " catching " and dangerous 
diseases are isolated and given careful treatment. 

If time permits we may follow E. Washington avenue 
past the Nathaniel Hawthorne Grammar School to the 
city limits and beyond among the prosperous farmers of 
of Blooming Grove, the adjoining township. 

Returning to the Yahara we bend north along Water 
street to Tenney Park, named for Hon. Daniel K. 
Tenney, who has given over $10,000 for park purposes.. 
This is the most picturesque park in the city. It em- 
braces over thirty acres and presents a happy and artis- 
tic combination of lawn, shrubbery, forest and placid 
lagoon spanned by two graceful arched foot brgides. 
Its north end extends along lake Mendota several hun- 
dred feet. We may drive out on the observation point 
which has been built into the lake, and obtain a good 
view of the widespread water and encircling shores. 
University hill shows to good advantage from here. To 
aid navigation a concrete lock has been built at the Men- 
dota end of the Yahara. Boats and launches may be 
seen passing through at almost any hour in the boating 
season. A part^of the river has been made to flow b}^ 




The Yahara lock for passage between ^Mendota and Monona. No toll is asked. 



TOUR NUMBER SIX. 



53 



a separate channel in rippling falls to join the main stream 
beneath the Sherman avenue bridge. For a quarter of 
a mile in the direction of the city this avenue is bordered 
by huge willows meeting overhead like the arches of 
some vast cathedral. It is known as the " willow drive." 
Twelve thousand dollars have been expended upon Ten- 
ney park. Extensive operations are now being made by 
the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association for 
improving Yahara river. Water street will be macad- 
amized and the bank graded and sown. At E. Wash- 
ington avenue an arched bridge costing $8,000, the gift 
of Hon. Halle Steensland, will cross the river. The east 
bank will be laid out into lawn, with a carriage wa}^ 
along its entire length. The Yahara river improve- 
ments will cost some $34,000, of which the city gives 
$4,000; the rest has been contributed by citizens as a 
gift to landscape art. 

Fifty years ago this place was an untroubled wilder- 
ness. From the capitol to the mouth of the Yahara the 
only path was an Indian trail along the Mendota shore; 
wagons could not pass. The only bridge was a three- 
foot elm felled across the stream. Here the early settlers 
came to fish by lantern light. We may guess their 
amazement could they see the place to-day. 

We may now ride east one mile on Sherman avenue 
to the tracks of the Northwestern railroad. Truck and 
dairy farms Ime the way. On the left, not far from the 
bridge, is the extensive estate of Mr. Edward M. Fuller. 
At the railroad tracks we enter Farwell Drive and fol- 
low it for five miles to the State Asylum for the insane 



tA THE CITY OF MADISON. 

at Mendota. Farwell drive (opened in 1897) follows the 
eastern, as Raymer drive does the western, shore of 
Lake Mendota. On the left the broad water is always 
in view. On the right we pass the club house and 
grounds (fifty-eight acres) of the Maple Bluff Golf 
Club. The whole cost $10,000. The road then winds 
over Maple Bluff, a sandstone promontory one hun- 
dred feet above the lake. Many fine summer cottages 
stand among the trees. We stop now and then to take in 
the splendid view. We remember that the builders of the 
first capitol quarried the stone from this bluft^ seventy- 
five years ago. Here in early spring the Indians gath- 
ered the maple sap from the trees and strained it through 
their blankets, as an early writer informs us. 

In due course we reach the grounds of the Hospital 
for the insane. This huge institution is one of two main- 
tained by the state: the other is at Oshkosh. Its lands 
comprise five hundred acres; around the buildings these 
are laid out in lawns, walks and beds of flowers; many 
fine trees abound. Some well-preserved Indian totem 
mounds between the buildings and the lake will repa}^ a 
visit. To build and maintain this Hospital the state of 
Wisconsin has paid over five millions of dollars. Five 
hundred inmates are cared for. Visitors are admitted 
on Tuesday afternoon, but the grounds are always ac- 
cessible. 

Everything is done for the health of the inmates. The 
water is pumped from artesian wells; a greenhouse pro- 
vides flowers; a large laundry insures cleanliness; a re- 
cent addition to the main building includes gymnasium, 
dining rooms, operating room and rooms for convales- 



THE GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE. 



55 



cents. A lar![^e number of the patients recover and re- 
turn to their friends. The incurable cases are distributed 
among the county asylums for the hopelessly insane. 

Governor's Island juts into the lake from the south- 
west corner of the Asylum grounds. Our road may be 
followed around the island, which has been platted for a 
public park by the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive 
Association. 

Rocky Roost is a tiny islet near the north shore of 
Governor's island. A summer camp covers it almost 
entirely, suggesting some huge bird sitting upon its nest. 

We have not 3'et reached the limit of our drive. The 
carriage-way follows the shore for another half mile to 
Farwell Point, named after L. J. Farwell, a former 
citizen of Madison and Governor of the state (1852-4). 
A slicrht excavation here marks the site of Governor 
Farwell's summer home. 

If our horse is a good traveler we may drive back to 

Tenney park over the same route in about half an hour. 

We now ride throuo-h the "willow drive-" followino- Sher- 
ry ' o 

man avenue to E. Gorham street. We rather env^y the 
fortunate folks who live in these lake shore homes. The 
wide piazzas at the back, the boat house on the shore, 
the fishing gear drying in the sun, show that they un- 
derstand how "to drive dull care away." 

The Abraham Lincoln Grammar School, Second ward, 
is at 712 E. Gorham street. 

At Butler street we turn north one block to E. Gil- 
man street. 

The Governor's Residence, 

A large house of Madison sandstone,is No. 130 E. Gilman 
street. The house was built by Mrs. Julius T. White, in 




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TRIPS BY WATER. 57 

1854. Later it was owned and occupied by the family of 
Mr. J. T. Thorpe. Here, on September 6, 1870, the fa- 
mous violinist, Ole Bull, was married to Sarah Thorpe. 
She was twenty years old; the groom was sixty. A 
union of May and December. The large reception parlor 
at the east end of the building was the music room of 
the great violinist, who lived here much of the time he 
was in America. In 1882 Governor Jeremiah Rusk 
purchased the property and lived here during his term 
of office. The state then paid Mr. Rusk $20,000 for 
the estate, enlarged and repaired it and it has since served 
its present purpose. The democratic manners of our 
Governors make a visit to the house easy and pleasant 

to all. 

We complete our ride through the east section of 
Madison and its environs by driving down Wisconsin 
avenue to Capitol Square. 

Much of what we have seen upon these tours can be 
easily reached by walking. The city is compact. The 
University is but one mile west of the Capitol, and the 
Yahara river but one mile and a quarter east. To those 
who have the time and strength these distances are tri- 
fling, and they will prefer to see the city on foot and at 
leisure. To the lovers of walking a trip to Maple Bluftor 
Mendota Asylum; to Eagle Heights or Wingra Lake, is 
the best of exercise. Many pedestrians circle lake Mo- 
nona, twelve miles; and some boast of having made the 
twenty-five miles around Mendota in a day. 
Trips by Water. 
Boats may be hired on Monona, near the East Madi- 
son depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R., 



58 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 



on Mendota at the University boat house, at the City Boat 
house foot of N. Carroll street, and at Bernard's Boat 
Livery, No. 624 E. Gorham street. One may row at 
will up and down the shores; or pass from one lake to 
the other through the Yahara river and lock. On Men- 




Picnic Point from Observatory Hill. 

The summer sleeps along the land; 
The dreaming waters sigh upon the shore, 
And mirror in their opalescent depths 
The fronded branches bending gently o'er. 

dota a favorite ride is to Picnic Point, with its shady 
trees and fine sandy beach inviting one to lunch or bathe. 
Sail boats are private property and cannot be readily 
hired. Where they are to be rented may be learned 
from the boat liveries. Motor boats are for rent at 
several of the above mentioned places. 

Steamer and Launch Trips. 

In the summer of 1906 the waterway between lakes 
Wingra and Monona will be completed. Row boats, 



STEAMER AND LAUNCH TRIPS. 



59 



canoes and launches will then have uninterrupted navi- 
gation upon three lakes and connecting streams with a 
shore line of nearly twenty-live miles. Nor is this all: 
the Yahara river ma}^ be followed southward to lakes 
Kegonsa and Waubesa, and canoe parties often paddle 
on the Rock river and thence to the Mississippi. It is 
possible to start from lake Mendota and voyage to New 
Orleans without leaving the water. 

At Angleworm station, foot of S. Carroll street are the 
dock and steamers of the Askew Brothers. These boats 
make frequent trips across and around Monona. For a 
trifling fare one may ride to the grounds of the Lake- 
side Assembly, a branch of the National Chatauqua, at 
the western end of Monona. Here are many cottages, 
and during the assembly, which meets in July of each 
year, scores of tents dot the place. An interesting feature 
is a circular auditorium seating 5000, built without a 
single post to obstruct the view. Esther Beach is a 
summer resort on the southwest shore of Monona lake. 
The Askew steamers make frequent trips. This beach 
is a popular place for large and small picnics. A dancing 
hall, lunch pavillion, swings, benches and row boats are 
at the disposal of its patrons. 

Scores of conventions meet in Madison during the 
summer, and almost invariably they take a trip around 
Monona in one of the steamers. They either hire a 
band, or take a graphaphone or indulge in choral songs — 
the music coming back over the water with softened and 
pleasing melody. 

On Lake Mendota the steamer Wisconsin makes reg- 



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THE CITY OF MADISON. 



ular daily trips. For a small fare one may enjoy a fif- 
teen mile ride past Picnic Point, Eagle Heights and Black 
Hawk's cave (a small cave where Black Hawk is 
said to have hidden — there is no historical ground for 
the story), thence across to Fox Blufi^ and the north 
shore; from there to Governor's Island and the State 




Maple LJluir. 

Sometimes Mendota murmurs round its base; 
Anon, it smiteth angrily and rough. 
With crested billow, like a giant's niace 
The ribbed sides of xMaple Bluff. 

Hospital for the insane and back past Maple Bluff to 
the starting point at Bernard's Landing, No. 624 E. Gor- 
ham street. For these trips the steamer Wisconsin may 
be taken either at Bernard's landing, or at the Univer- 
sity boat house. The ride around Mendota by moon- 
light is especially recommended. The numerous cam- 
pers about the shore of Mendota reach their cottages 
and bring their supplies by this steamer. 



PARKS AND DRIVES. 6l 

The launch Putter 11. makes many trips per day from 
the City boat house, foot of N. Carroll street to the wharf 
of the Maple Bluff Golf Club. Campers and others de- 
siring to reach Maple Bluff may ride in this launch. 

We have described the principal buildings and points 
of interest in the city and its surroundings and the easi- 
est routes by which they may be visited. It remains to 
mention a few other things of importance. 

Fishing and Hunting. 

Madison lakes are celebrated far and wide for their 
excellent fishing. Pickerel are caught up to eighteen 
pounds in weight; the small mouthed black bass and 
the yellow bass weighing six and seven pounds are plen- 
tiful. White bass and perch are abundant and may be 
seen of a still evening rippling the water in schools. 
Fishing tackle and bait can be obtained at the boat 
liveries. Hunters have good sport with ducks, geese, 
mallard, quail and rabbits. Licenses to shoot must be 
taken at the office of the Secretary of State. 

The State Fish Hatchery 

Is located on the Fitchburg road five miles southwest of 
Madison. The visitor may see large numbers of trout 
of various sizes; these are used to stock the streams and 
lakes in different parts of the state. 

Parks and Drives. 

Most of these have already been spoken of. A word 
concerning them as a whole: Within the city limits are 
nine parks either completed or planned for; these are 
Orton park, 3.6 acres; Tenney park, 33 acres; Yahara 




Willow \vaik: i)L'L\vcc 



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Drive and Lake Mendota, 



'One impulse from a vernal wood 
May teach you more of man, 
Of moral, evil, and of good. 
Than all the sa^^es can." 



INTELLECTUAL LIFE. 



63 



River parkway, 12 acres; Henry Vilas park, 60 acres 
(these are either completed or nearly so), and Monona 
Lake park, 1.5 acres; Kendall park, 1.5 acres; Burr 
Jones field, 1.5 acres; East Washington Avenue park- 
w^ay, 10 acres; Brittingham park and additions, 27 acres 
(these are planned and will be soon completed). These 
make a total of 150 acres. To this w^e may add the land 
belonging to the state: the Capitol park, 14 acres, and 
the University grounds, 200 acres (within the city). Thus 
the grand total of parks, either completed or provided 
for, in Madison is 364 acres. Nor is this all, for there 
are 80 acres more of parks and pleasure drives outside 
the city, yet within easy reach. Most of this work has 
been paid for by private subscriptions. Including 1905 
the amount given by Madison citizens for parks and 
drives is more than $150,000. We doubt if there is an- 
other city in the United States of similar size that can 
show a greater park acreage or a more generous public 
spirit. 

Libraries. 

Five large and valuable collections of books are ac- 
cessible to the public. The Madison Free Library has 
18,000 titles; the State Law Library (second floor of 
the Capitol), 37,000 volumes; the State Historical Soci- 
ety's Library, 280,000; the University Library, 75,000 
books and 25,000 pamphlets; and the collection of the 
Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters and Science, 5,000 
volumes of reports and transactions of learned societies. 
Altogether these Ubraries have 250,000 books and 135,^ 
000 pamphlets. 



€4 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 



Intellectual Life. 

Under the heading " The Madison Schools " we stated 
that forty-five hundred pupils are in the public and pri- 
vate schools of the city. When we add the thirty-six 
hundred students who attend the University in the course 
of a year, we have eight thousand one hundred children 
and youths per year enrolled in the educational courses 
of Madison. They are under the instruction of some 
three hundred and fifty male and female teachers and 
professors. One-third, therefore, of the population are 
engaged in giving or acquiring knowledge. The intel- 
lectual atmosphere is pervasive and stimulating. The 
people attend the open lectures at the University, sup- 
port many literary clubs, draw thousands of books from 
the libraries and support the associations for civic im- 
provement. 

Moral Life. 

Madison is an orderly city. Disturbances of the peace 
are rare. Most of the prisoners who appear in the Munici- 
pal Court are non-residents. Grosser evils incident tolarge 
-cities are not found here. The student body is remark- 
ably w^ell governed and hard working. The churches 
are flourishing; the fraternal lodges are numerous and 
strong; the public Hospital cares for the indigent sick; 
the Benevolent Society, supported by all citizens, looks 
after the needy; a branch of the Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals protects the rights of 
dumb creatures. 

Literary Madison. 

The city has an enviable share in the world of letters. 
Current literature is represented by three daily newspa- 



LITERARY MADISON. 



6s 



pers, nine weekly, one semi-monthly, eight monthly and 
one quarterly newspapers and journals. These include 
some of the larger publications of the University. Lit- 
erature of a more permanent character appears in nu- 
merous school and college text-books, articles in the 
Atlantic Monthly and other high-grade magazines, sci- 
entific works, histories, etc. Hon. Burr W. Jones, a 
Madison lawyer, has written a valuable text-book on the 
law. Prof. Frederick Turner's name and writings are 
known to all students of American history. Prof. Joseph 
Jastrow's book " Fact and Fable in Psychology " has 
been widely read. President Van Hise's book on the 
" Distribution of Metals " is his juagnnm opts, and an 
authority in geological science. Prof. Paul H. Reinsch 
has published many articles and books on international 
politics. Prof. Richard T. Ely's " Socialism and Social 
Reform," " The Evolution of Industrial Society," and 
other numerous writings are known everywhere. Other 
widely-read authors upon the University faculty are 
Profs. Wm. Scott, of the School of Commerce; Vincent 
O'Shea, of the Department of Education, and Frank C. 
Sharp, of the Philosophical Department. A " History 
of the Roman People," by the late Prof. Wm. F. Allen, 
is used in man}^ schools and colleges. Books of the late 
John Butler Johnson, Dean of the Engineering School, 
have a large sale among engineers. Prof. Alexander 
Kerr has published a translation of Plato's Republic 
and others of the Greek classics. Reuben Gold Thwaites, 
Secretary of the State Historical Society, is a busy wielder 
of the pen. He has contributed largely to the published 
reports of the society and has edited those which have 



56 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

appeared since taking his office. The massive "Jesuit 
Relations," in fifty-five volumes, were also edited by 
him. "The Story of the Thirteen Colonies," a standard 
text-book; Lives of "Father Marquette" and " Daniel 
Boone;" "Down Historic Wisconsin Waterways," and 
" The Storied Ohio," are some of his popular books. 

Dr. James Davie Butler is still living in Madison in his 
eighty-ninth year. His name is widely known in Wis- 
consin and elsewhere as traveller, lecturer and author. 
John Muir, whose name is immortaUzed in the " Muir 
Glacier," graduated from the University of Wisconsin 
in 1870. His book on "Oar National Parks" estab- 
lished his reputation as a scientist and man of letters. 
Col. Charles A. Curtis, military director at the univer- 
sity, has written several delightful stories of army life 
for young people. His son Warden Curtis, who inherits 
his father's tastes, writes books and contributes stories 
to the current magazines. Two Norwegian citizens de- 
serve notice : Mr. Rasmus B. Anderson, ex-United States 
minister to Denmark, has written "America Not Dis- 
covered by Columbus" and "Norse Mythology," the 
latter being very widely known and used. He is now 
editor of "Amerika," a Scandinavian newspaper. Prof. 
Julius Olsen, of the Scandinavian department of the Uni-^ 
versity, is a clear and authoritative writer on Norwegian 
themes, including a Norwegian Grammar and Reader. 
Chas. K. Lush, now Hving here, is the author of two 
recent novels, " The Autocrats " and " The Federal 
Judge." 

Nor must we omit from this list several Madison 



ART IN MADISON, 



67 



women. The poet-essayist Ella Wheeler Wilcox spent 
her girlhood and wrote her early works in Madison;. 
Mary Grant O'Sheridan, who wrote "Nature Songs for 
Little People;" Elizabeth R. Scidmore, traveler and au- 
thor; Mrs. Margaret Allen,who edited "Scott's Lay of the 
Last Minstrel," with interpretative notes; Mrs. Hannah 
Twitchell, author of "Beautiful Women in Art" and 
translator of French books; Mrs. A. W. Moore, musical 
and Hterary critic and leader of study classes, author of 
"Echoes from Mist Land," "For My Musical Friend," 
and other books — are all connected with Madison. 

Indeed, this list is so long that we cannot include them 
all. Yet it were hardly right to omit such names as that 
of the late Charles Kendall Adams, president of the Uni- 
versity, editor of Johnson's Encyclopedia, much of whose 
most soHd writing was done in Madison; ex-President 
John Bascom of the University, who wrote several books 
of substantial merit while here; Daniel S. Durrie and 
Lyman P. Draper, whose writings and collections on 
western history form the most valuable part of the ma- 
terial belonging to the Wisconsin Historical Society. 

Art in Madison. 

Portraiture has received most attention: portraits by 
Cogswell, Thomas Moran, Sargent and Sir Thomas 
Laurence are owned by private citizens. 

On the upper floor of the Historical Library is a se- 
lect and growing art collection of considerable value. 
Its nucleus is the gift of the late Charles Kendall Adams 
and his wife Mary Adams. President Adams' portrait 
5 



68 THE CITY OF MADISON. 

by Ford, a Canadian artist, and that of Mrs. Adams by 
Bonetti of Rome are noteworthy. Besides valuable paint- 
ings the^collection includes specimens of decorative art. 

Portraits of Wisconsin celebrities are in the gallery of 
the Historical Society, the University halls, the Supreme 
court and the Circuit court. Many of these are the 
w^ork of Mr. J. R. Stuart for thirty years a resident of 
Madison. Other local artists are Miss Mary Bunn who 
painted the portrait of the late Justice Newman for the 
Supreme court room; and Miss Leila Dow whose work 
in china is to be found in the best homes of the city. 
There are some good pieces of statuary in the city. The 
group in white marble in the capitol rotunda entitled the 
genius of Wisconsin is by Miss Mears, a Wisconsin girl. 
The bronze figure on the capital park near the eastern 
portico with the title Forward was modeled by a Madi- 
son lady, Miss Jean P. Miner. 

The Madison Art Association is doing much to in- 
crease the popular taste for art. It gives several exhi- 
bitions each year with interpretative lectures. Some 
choice etchings and reproductions of the Greek and 
Roman sculptures have been secured and placed in the 
art gallery of the Historical library through the Asso- 
ciation. 

Landscape architecture is shown in the work of the 
Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association. Taste- 
ful and beautiful areas have been laid out which appeal 
to all classes. This work has reacted on the public 
taste; it is manifest in well kept lawns, shrubbery, vines 
and flowers about private homes and where possible 
about the public buildings. The recent architecture of 



MADISON AS A SUMMER RPLSORT. 



69 



the city also gives evidence of a growing care for beau- 
tiful structures. The new University buildings, the Free 
Library and proposed new High School are tasteful as 
well as useful. 

Madison as a Summer Resort. 

If one seeks lake scenery, boating, fishing and bath- 
ing, a fine open country with woodland for walking or 
driving, Madison is a good place to pass the summer. 




Camp Scene. 

The tents are pitched beneath the trees, 

Forgotten care and strife; 
We rest upon dame Nature's knees 

And Hve the ' simple life.' 



The climate is cool, with a few days of hot weather. 
The lake cottages are within easy reach of the markets 
and the mail. Canvas tents can be rented of the local 



70 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 



dealers tmd pitched almost anywhere on the lake shores 
outside the city. Furnished houses, flats, suites and 
single rooms in town are available for the summer visitor. 

Madison as a Convention City. 

Its well-known institutions and exceptional situation 
attract numerous gatherings from far and near. Scores 
of farmers, dairymen, professional, scientific, business and 
fraternal conventions meet here every year. They often 
come while the legislature is in session and are addressed 
by the Governor, the President of the University and 
other leaders in public life. The Modern Woodman's 
convention has brought 10,000 visitors at one time. 

Madison as a Manufacturing City. 

The city directory gives the names of sixty-four man- 
ufactunng establishments, large and small, doing busi- 
ness in Madison. Some of these are huge enterprises 
employing hundreds of men — such as the Gisholt Ma- 
chine Compan}^ the Fuller & Johnson Company and the 
American Plow Works. The new Beet Sugar Factory 
will soon be added. The list of manufactures include 
farm implements, machinery, breweries, boat building, 
boots and shoes, carriages, cigars, collar pads, motors, 
gasoline engines, foundrys, hospital furniture, tele- 
phones and many others. Three great Railway lines in 
ei<>:ht divisions center here. The railroad haul is but 
eighty miles to Milwaukee and one hundred and thirty- 
nine to Chicago. The surrounding country is filled with 
prosperous farmers who purchase largely of the local 



MADISON AS A PERMANENT HOME. 



71 



manufacturers. The tobacco business is centering here. 
•Good farmers make $100 per acre from the tobacco crop, 
and several large warehouses have been built in the city. 

Madison as a Business City. 

The stores and shops are well stocked with up-to-date 
goods. On Capitol Square rents are necessarily high, 
but in other localities are moderate. Shops and markets 
are springing up in the suburbs, and there is room for 
more. The large official and professional class, with 
good and steady incomes, and the many artisans and 
inechanics make intelligent and liberal customers. Bills 
are promptly paid; the percentage of bad debts is small. 

Madison as a Permanent Home. 

ADISON is now the sixth largest 
city in Wisconsin. For the past five 
years the rate of increase in the pop- 
ulation has been more than one thou- 
sand per annum. This gain has been 
of a solid and substantial nature. 
Real estate has steadily increased in value. Hundreds 
of dw^elling houses have been built. Madison is a home 
city, there being over five thousand homes in the place. 
The water supply is perfectly pure; the death rate but 
8.5 per thousand; annual rain fall 31 inches. The yearly 
aggregate of bank deposits is $5,100,000; postal receipts 
over $98,000 for the year past. There are 3,100 tele- 
phones in use on two systems. Five hundred commer- 
cial houses are doing business in Madison. Gas, electric 




72 



THE CITY OF MADISON. 



lights, water and sewerage are at the service of all house- 
holders; thirty miles of streets are macadamized. To 
these advantages and conveniences are added the solid 
benefits of the Capital, the Supreme Court and the circuit 
court; the unsurpassed opportunities for education, in 
five libraries with over 250,000 books, the public and 
private schools and the great University; the natural at- 
tractions of the lakes (fifteen square miles of water on 
one side and five on the other); the three hundred acres 
of park area and fourteen miles of macadamized drive- 
ways along the lake shores. 

To the manufacturer seeking a location with good 
transportation facilities and where labor troubles are un- 
known; to the man with a small capital to invest in busi- 
ness, or to him who wishes a modern training for his chil- 
dren and a stimulating atmospiiere for himself and family, 
the city offers a cordial welcome. Welcome, too, is the ar- 
tisan and workingman. By honest work and frugal liv- 
ing he may gain a home of his own as so many of his 
fellows have done. All who come to share the life and 
cooperate in the work of our city will be generously re- 
ceived. And they, too, like all the rest of us, will never 
regret the day they came to dwell in the fair city of the 
lakes. 

" But look you now — Monona smiles as ever 
She gloried in the mirror'd kiss of heaven : 
Nor less the undulating carpet green 
Of the lair woodlands spread before their Queen, 
In emerald beauty, — wooded lakes unite 
To glad the heart and put dull care to flight." 

— From '•'• Plea of the Seasous,^^ ivritten in i8yj for the Madison In- 
stitute by Kate M. Bailey. 



ERRATA. 

P. 28. Cars for the University and Western limits pass 
the Capitol Park on Pinckney and Mifflin Streets. 
Cars for 6th Ward and Eastern limits go on Carroll 
and Main Streets. 

P. 4S. Cars on the West Main Street and East Johnson 
Street line, west bonnd, pass the Capitol on Mifflin 
and Carroll; east bound on Main and Pinckney. 

P. 51. Annual cost of sewerage disposal plant 16,000. 

P. 59. Shore line of Mendota, Monona and Wingra, with 
connecting waterway, 42 miles. 

ADVURTISfLMENTS 

Savings Loan & Trust Co. 

MADISON. WISCONSIN 

Capital _ _ _ _ $100,000 

Assets Over - - $1,000,000 

Issues Coupon Debenture Bonds Bearing: 4 Per Cent 

Funds received in sums of Five Dollars and upwards 

This company is auih rized to aut as Trustee, Administrator, 
Guardian, Receiver, etc. 

HflLLE STBENSLflND, Pres. and Treas. N. B. VAN SLYKE, V. Fres. 

E. B. STEENSLflND, Secretanj 



CooK with Gas 



This is the home of 



Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea 

The best household remedy extant 

Hollister Drug Company 

SOLE PROPRIETORS 



WM. D. FITCH 



Undertaker 



123 West l^lain Street. 



M. S. KLAUBER CO. 

Cllotbing ana 
Turttisbing Goods 
Tine Cailoring 

23 E. Main St., Madison, Wis. 



We Want Your Laundry Work 

We ask you to let us have it because we have 
the faciHties and experience that enables us to 
do the best work that will be satisfactory to you 
in every respect. 

ALFORD BROS., 



Both Phones 172 



113=115 N. Carroll St. 



Carl Boelsing 



Tobacconist 



AND DEALER IN 



Smokers' Articles, French 
Brier & Meerschaum Pipes 

126 state St., Madison, Wis. 



The Capital City 5anl( 

OF MADISON, >VIS. 



Cash Capital, - ,$50,000 

Surplus and Profits. $150,000 

DIRECTORS 

J. W. Tlobbins, Pres. and Cashier 

Carl A. Johnson, Vice-Pres. 
A. H. Hollister. Carl J. Hausmann, 
M. S. Klauber. 
Wm. J. Hobbins. Ass't Cash. 



ESTABLISHED 1877 

Real Estate for sale in Dane and otlier counties, houses, lots, 
business blocks, fire insurance, surety bonds, money to loan, rents 
collected, taxes paid. All property shown free of charge. 

L. E. STEVENS 

REAL ESTATE BROKER 

'Phone 249 Office opposite Park Hotel 'Phone 883 

BURDICK & MURRAY CO. 

17 and 19 E. Main Street, 

MADISON, WIS. 



KRONCKE BROS. 

The Live Hardware and House 
...Furnishing Goods Dealers... 

Quality remains long after the price is forgotten 

BotH PHones Cor. Carroll and Mifflin 



Wm. F. Vilas. President 

Frank W Hoyt. V.-Pres. 

Joseph M. Boyd. C ishier 

BANK OF WISCONSIN 

MADISON, WIS. 

Capital Paid in - - $100,000 
Surplus - - - - 50,000 

Add. liability of stockholders 100, 000 



Savings Department 

Safety Deposit Boxes for Kent at 
Reasonable Prices 



The Largest Book Store 

in the state 

BIG LINE OF 

Postal Cards, Wm and 
$oui^cnir$ of Itladison 

All the Latest Books 

College Book Store 

412 STATE STREET 



OLSON & VEERHUSEN 



The "BIG" Store 

Clothiers, Furnishers 
and Tailors 



7 and 9 N. PincKney St., 



Madison, Wis, 



WIM. PIPER 

GROCER 

SPECIALTIES 

Choice Teas and Coffees 
Heinz Pickles & Vine§:ar 
Holiday Canned Goods 
Ea§:le Brand Brick 
Cheese 

Our Stock is complete 



^be iTair 

Madison's foremost 
economical supply 
center. Everything 
under one roof. 
Madison, - Wisconsin 



Wisconsin Music Company 

JOHN W. GROVES, Vice Pres. and Manager 



^ flDaeon & ibainlin Pinc fortes 

Conover, Blasius & Sons, Cable, Kingsbury, Wellington 

Pianos ^ Mason & Hamlin and Chicago Cottage Organs 

Phones: Standard 240; Bell 3.->ll 



20 North Carroll Street, 



Madison, Wisconsin 



Noah Perlmutter 

High Grade 
Tailor . . . 

Corner Main and Carroll, facing: 

south end of the Capitol 

opposite Park Hotel 

7 West Main St. 



A. Haswell & Co, 

Good 
furniture 



Madison, 



Wis 



DEC 14 3905 



F. A AVERBECK 

JEWELER AND OPTICIAN 

"27" 

Is the oldest, the largest — in fact the onlv Music Hou » 
Wisconsin that has not change . tirnn-name. 

••27" W, Main Street. Established 1873 



PIPER BROS. 

THE PLACE TO BUY 

Good Groceries 

3 LARGE STORES 

Mifflin St.. PincKney St.. 

The MarK«t 

CARLOAD BUYERS 

It pftys to trade at Pipers. 


Jill Roads 

and outside of 

.U.uMron's limits lead to 

Che Popular 
eicfbcs ana %m Store 



When You Have a . 



l^ost. ^ Help "Wanted. 
Found. Positions AVarvted, 
For Sale. To ELxcKange. 
For Rent, or otHer "-want" 



AD 



Put it in Madison's Evening Paper 

THE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL 



THIS "AD" 

is intended for the eye of 

tliat person who has not 

been a customer at our 

stores. 

We want to impress the 

fact that ours are tlie Right 

Kind of Drug Stores. 

The Menges Pharmacies 

28 W. Wiftlin St.. 829 Univ. Ave. 



A. E. Austin & Co. 

13 S. PiacRney St. 



